The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-04-28
THE EDITORS DESK.
COMMENTS ON TOPICS THAT ARE
INTERESTING THE PEOPLE.
The Chronicle Expresses Its Opinion on
Passing Public Events and Questions
of Interest Now Before the People.

The Chronicle Expresses It's Opinion on
Passing Public Events and Questions
of Interest Now Before the People.
If, in our haste to be rich and mighty,
we outrun our literary and religious iu-
stitutions, they will never overtake US
Henry Ward Beccher.
The Supreme Court of South Carolina
has rendered a decision that a married
woman cannot mortgage her separate es
tate except for the benefit of that estate.
Yes, sir" said the liquor dealer, sit is
a good law that prevents anyone from
opening school within five hundred feet
of a liquor saloon. School houses are the
ruin of the trade, anyway"
The New York papers think that not
withstanding the Interstate Commerce
BILL the tale that Doodle Jacob Sharp
will tell on his trial, will bring custom to
every railroad leading out of New York
and Jersey City. If he tells all he knows,
as some think he will, there are ''big bugs
who will need to get a through ticket to
Canada.
Andrew D. White, the first President of
Cornell University, in article to be pub
lished in the Forum for May weighs the
beneficial influences of college secret So
cieties against their alleged injurious eff
fects, and makes a strong plea in favor of
the liberty of the students. The question
is hotly debated at present by college fac
ultres, and Mr. Whites article is there
fore most timely.
Congressman Scott, of Pennsylvania.
proposes to bet s., 900 that President Gle
veland will be renominated without seri
Gus opposition and elected in 1888. Fur
thermore, he will wager the same amount
that the Republican party will make no
nominations after 1892. He thinks that
another defeat will disintegrate the party,
which is now held together by the hope of
victory in 1888.
The Calliopean is the name Of neat lit
tie paper, published in the interest of the
Calliopean Literary Society, of the Dur
ham Methodist Female Seminary, which
composed of: Miss Lucy Atwater, editor
nchief; Miss Ida Carr, local editor, and
Miss Villa B. Ellison, business manager
We Wish the young ladies much success
profit and pleasure in their journalistic
venture.
The great popularity of the President
has been shown this week by reason of a
statement published in the st. Louis Re-
publican that he had said he would not
accept Il denomination. OF course the
President never said anything of the kind,
out the publication served to show how
strong hold he has on the people of the
whole country, and to indicate that he
will be nominated in 1888.
While people are speculating on Cleye-
lands views about a second term, the St
Louis Post-Dispatch thinks there is a little
remark of Abraham Lincoln's which may
appropriately be quoted. Some time af-
ter he had been beaten by DOughlas In the
great Senatorial contest he was asked by
one of his friends if he still cherished any
hopes of being President. He answered.:
''When a man once gets the taste OF the
Pre- sidency in his mouth it is right hard to
spit it out"
Another fatal accident caused by care
lessly handling gun" This time it was
in Vance county. Master Gilbert Hester
accidentally killed colored boy, Amos
Harris, nine years of age. The Gold Leaf
says, mo blame attaches to anyone" The
CHRONICLE agrees with the Gold Leaf, so
far as criminal intent is concerned, but it
believes that blame attaches always to
carelessness. Hundreds of people die an
nually by handling gun that wasn't
known to be loaded. People must be
taught to be careful. Human life is too
precious for carelessness.
Gen. Francis A. Walker does not share
in the anxiety which finds pretty free ex-
preston in scientific and literary quarters,
touching the spread of socialistic ideas.
In an article to be published in the Forum
for May he draws clear line of distinc-
ton between 1.-The socialists" the terrible
fire-eaters who would wreck, pillage and
destroy all clVll1ZatlOn, ana VINO are SILL
ply to be treated with the club or the
strait jacket, or on occasion with the rope;
and the advocates of form Of govern
ment more or less socialistic, men who
believe that government is best employ
ed in promoting, in every fair and feasible
way, the good of the governed.
The evils of easy divorce may be coun-
teracted either by restricting the power
of courts to grant DEGREES, or by regulat-
ing the mode of the marriage contract,
prescribing forms, requiring publicity, ETC.
In the Forum for May, Judge Edmund H.
Bennett, of Boston, who strongly favors
the second way of making divorce less
frequent, will show how lightly the con-
tract of marriage is treated in the Iegis!a-
ton of most of the States. 1t is simple
truth ard no exaggeration whatever that
in many States, notably New York, man
and woman, or a boy and girl, may be
married with less form and ceremony than
attends the purchase of peck of potatoes.